Regional crisis and recovery
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- 2008 review of economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific
- ( United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2008)
- Examines the region’s key short and medium term prospects and challenges in macroeconomic and selected social areas and studies long-term development issues for the developing countries in ...
- Looking forward to Thailand's economic future
- ( K. Richter / World Bank , 2006)
- Thailand is one of the most successful developing countries. After decades of rapid growth, the economy rebounded quickly from the 1997-98 Asian crisis and is set to continue its expansion into the fu...
- Child labour during Indonesia's economic crisis
- ( A. Priyambada; A. Suryahadi; S. Sumarto / SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia , 2005)
- Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current ch...
- Partnerships for water and sanitation management in urban Argentina
- ( Ana Hardoy;Jorgelina Hardoy;Gustavo Pandiella;Gastón Urquiza / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2004)
- In the 1990s Argentine authorities believed that privatisation would provide adequate water and sanitation services in poor areas. However, provision to sparsely populated areas peripheral to urban se...
- Health sector reforms and crisis in Argentina
- ( Peter Lloyd-Sherlock / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2004)
- During the 1990s, Argentina carried out wide- ranging health sector reforms. In 2001, the country plunged into economic and political turmoil. The capacity of the health sector to withstand this crisi...
- Examining the effects of an unexpected and prolonged stop in capital flows to emerging market economies
- ( G.A. Calvo; A. Izquierdo; E. Talvi / Center for Economic and Social Policy Research, Uruguay , 2003)
- The fall of the Convertibility Program - the currency board regime in Argentina - has been subject of much discussion. This paper aims to provide a new interpretation of the collapse of Convertibility...
- Gender differences in entry to the Kenyan labour market
- ( A.O. Agwanda; P. Bocquier; A. Khasakhala; S. Owuor / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme , 2004)
- Since the pioneer analysis of the labour market by the ILO team in the early 1970s, the NUrIP, which collected about 1,600 biographies among a sample of the Nairobi adult population, is the first to p...
- A currency basket for East Asia
- ( J. Williamson / Institute for International Economics, USA , 2005)
- China recently announced that it is adopting a basket of currencies as the peg for its exchange rate instead of the US dollar. This move raises the question of whether such a currency basket could be ...
- Effects of financial integration on emerging markets
- ( Bank for International Settlements , 2005)
- This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of glob...
- Argentinean debt: common assumptions questioned
- ( M. Damill; R. Frenkel; M. Rapetti / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University , 2005)
- This paper analyses some of the processes that led to the Argentinean debt default and its subsequent restructuring. It highlights a number of common assumptions on the debt crises and critically ques...
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